President Donald Trump has fired former second gentleman Doug Emhoff and several other Biden appointees from the council that oversees the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Emhoff, the husband of former Vice President Kamala Harris, is Jewish and toured the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland on International Holocaust Remembrance Day in January 2023 alongside Holocaust survivors.
“Today, I was informed of my removal from the United States Holocaust Memorial Council,” Emhoff said in a statement posted to X. “Holocaust remembrance and education should never be politicized. To turn one of the worst atrocities in history into a wedge issue is dangerous — and it dishonors the memory of six million Jews murdered by Nazis that this museum was created to preserve.”
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Other appointees who were dismissed included: Ron Klain, former
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